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Book 56, 2024
Memos From a Madwoman by Mary BowersMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Stayed up a bit past my bedtime last night to finish reading Memos from a Madwoman by Mary Bowers. It's the 15th installment in her "Tropical Breeze" series of paranormal cozy mysteries.
An elderly resident of Tropical Breeze, Analise Love, has taken to wandering the streets and leaving behind scraps of paper with confusing messages on them. Her eccentricity seems harmless enough, but when Analise is found murdered in her home, paranormal investigator Edson Darby-Deaver feels her notes may hold the clue as to who killed her. Ed is busy, but he tabs his assistant, Dobbs, to investigate, and Taylor Verone gets pulled into the caper when even her mysterious black cat, Bastet, seems to take an interest in the case. After Taylor stores some items from Analise's house in her resale shop and the shop is broken into, even the police are forced to consider that Analise's murder wasn't simply a random burglary gone awry. Now it's up to Taylor and Bastet to bring a killer to justice.
This was perhaps the least "paranormal" book in the series, unless you count Bastet's involvement. Nevertheless, the story was compelling and kept me reading when I should have gone to bed. I enjoyed reconnecting with familiar characters and meeting new ones. The plot was interesting and well-paced.
Favorite lines:
♦ The two women returned to covertly watching the two sides of the triangle that were connecting while the hypotenuse was out of the room.
♦ "At first I couldn't place her. You know how it is when you see somebody out of context."
♦ Cats are elemental creatures living in a world that just happens to occupy the same space as ours.
♦ "I'm Taylor Verone and it's just your dumb luck I'm not the late Taylor Verone, having recently died of a heart attack. After killing you, of course. We could have walked into the light holding hands."
♦ You spend too much time with crackpots and the next thing you know your housekeeper is telling you to go talk to your cat. Because cats know everything, right?
♦ "Is your cat willing to testify about that in court?"
Fun and engrossing, four stars.
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Happy June.
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